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Peter Anders

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Peter Anders is an architect, educator, and information design theorist. He has published widely on the architecture of cyberspace and is the author of "Envisioning Cyberspace" which presents design principles for on-line spatial environments. The book was published by McGraw Hill.

Anders received his degrees from the University of Michigan (B.S.1976) and Columbia University (M.A.1982) and the University of Plymouth Planetary Collegium (Ph.D. 2004). He was a principal in Kiss, Cathcart, Anders, an architectural firm in New York City which designed facilities for the production of photovoltaic panels. In 1994 he formed Anders Associates, an architectural practice specializing in media/information environments. He has received numerous design awards for his work and has taught graduate level design studios and computer-aided design at universities including the New Jersey Institute of Technology, University of Detroit-Mercy, and the University of Michigan. He is presently an officer of the International Society of Electronic Arts, ISEA, Foundation, and Senior Designer with Dow Howell Gilmore Associates.

His work has been featured in professional journals and he has presented his research on the architecture of cyberspace in several international venues including The New York Architectural League, Xerox PARC, ISEA, CAiiA, Cyberconf, ACADIA, AEC, ACM-Multimedia, InterSymp, SEGD and the World Future Society.